Hi, I'm Jane!

Hi, I'm Jane!

I'm Jane Whittingham - a Canadian picture book author, children's librarian and tea drinker.

Let's Work Together!


Storytimes

Kids move, groove and learn with interactive, engaging, vocabulary-building storytimes featuring my award-winning books.

Writing Workshops

Inspire writers of all ages and stages with hands-on writing workshops tailored to the needs and interests of your school, library or organization.

Writer-For-Hire

Whether you're looking to publish a textbook on crustaceans, a picture book adaptation of a popular cartoon, or just about anything in between, I've got the skills and experience to make it happen.

Author Visits

Give students a sneak peek into the world of publishing with an interactive, engaging and completely customized author visit, offered in person or virtually.

What's New on the Blog

Uncategorized ➤ February 6, 2026

Poetry Friday: February 6, 2026

Anyone fancy a clogyrnach?  Besides just being a wonderful word to look at and pronounce, the clogyrnach is a Welsh poetic form that, per Writer’s Digest, is “typically a six-line syllabic stanza with an ab...

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Poetry Friday: January 23, 2026
Uncategorized ➤ January 22, 2026

Poetry Friday: January 23, 2026

I love funny poems. Many people, especially students, can be intimidated by or uninterested in poetry because they view it as stuffy, overly serious, even pretentious. And while many poems, even very good ones, can...

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Poetry Friday: January 16, 2026
Uncategorized ➤ January 14, 2026

Poetry Friday: January 16, 2026

I tried a fun poetry prompt with my writing club students recently – let’s write a poem about an animal that incorporates its communication sounds into the text! We started by brainstorming some of our...

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